Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-02

is wong and unnecessary, desire to re-
tain 1t as hostsge to insure the speedier
reduction of the tariff. Between these
conflicting interests stands the President
and the great majority OF the Democratic
party. A reasonable, seasonable, prudent
and conservative policy will be adopted
and carried out. Democrats who believe
in high protective tariff under
the delusion that it benefits the
country or the laboring element,
have no desire to ostracize Mr..
Mills because he advocates free trade, and
Democrats who believe es Mr.. Mills does
will be too sensible to insist on the sacri-
fee of Mr.. Randall because that gentle
man is an ardent tariff advocate.
Democracy Is too cosmopolitan, too
universal for that. People must be
allowed to exercise their own opinions
and they must be expected to protect
their own local or sectional interests
whether they are Democrats or not.
Freedom of thought, Of speech and of
action cannot be stified or prevented by
party fealty because Democracy requires
no such sacrifice of its members.
America is big country and must be
governed by universal laws and not on
local, class or sectional ideas, and these
laws can be enacted only by compromise
and concession. There have been extrem-
lists at all times and upon all subjects, but
these extremists are aptipodal. Mr..
Mills, representing an agricultural con-
stitVency, desires the abolition or reduc-
ton of the tariff, and he has right
to his opinions, and it is his duty
to endeevor to have these opln-
ions crystalized into law; Mr..
Randall, representing constituency who
believe in protective tariff, has right
to his opinions, and must be expected to
oppose what he consclentiously believes
to be assaults upon the interests of his
people. Both are Democrats, and the
Democracy requires and cannot spare
the services of either. While we may
venerate the wisdom of Democratic
sages who have declared against pro-
tective tariff, other good Democrats be-
lieve that Democracy does not mean sn
unquestioning faith in the exioms or
maxims Of the past, but that it is polit-
ical faith which looks 20 the interests of
the present and for the present. II Is
an organization which brings to-
gether in one fold the whole people,
each free to fully and fairly pre-
sent his claims. It requires that
mutual concessions be made in order that
from the incong uous conflict may be
brought forth harmonious result. The
senseless twaddle about reading Sam
Randall out of the Democratic party is
The veriest bCsh. II the Democrats were
entirely void Of gratitude for this grand
man and forgetful of bis past services
when his hand stayed an assault upon
than the civil war itself, they still could
not afford to ignore the rights of other
Democrats who think differently from
themselves. And, if the Democrats were
practically and literally unit for free
trade and the Republicans unit for a
protective tariff, they could not afford to
ride rough shod over the wishes OF the
minority. Democratic legislation to be
effective must be IN the interest of
Republicans as well IS Demo-
Gratis. Superior numbers are elements
of brute force when used to
crush opposition and ignore the wants
and wishes Of others, and, in free coun-
try, no party can remain dominant that is
guilty Of tyranny. 1t is an insult to our
Democratic statesmen to say that they
would be insane enough to disrupt their
psrty and surrender control Of the gov
eminent by driving from their standard
the ablest and staunchest Democrats in
the country, merely because they differed
with them as to the best method Of rem
edying an evil which all must ,acknoWl-
edge exists. The hoarge hoWlings of
intemper2te extremists will be husned
and the good sense of the rational major
ity will prevail. Mr. Randall is very
much in the Democratic party and Mr..
Randall is going to remain there.